| The Battle at Lake Changjin II | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 長津湖之水門橋 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 长津湖之水门桥 | ||||||
| Literal meaning | The Water Gate Bridge at Lake Changjin | ||||||
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| Directed by | Chen Kaige Tsui Hark Dante Lam | ||||||
| Screenplay by | Lan Xiaolong Huang Jianxin | ||||||
| Produced by | Huang Jianxin Chen Kaige Tsui Hark Dante Lam | ||||||
| Starring | |||||||
| Cinematography | Luo Pan (罗攀) Gao Hu (高虎) Kenny Tse Peter Pau Huang Yongheng (黄永恒) Ding Yu (丁豫) | ||||||
| Edited by | Mai Zishan (麦子善) Li Dianshi (李点石) He Yongyi (何永祎) | ||||||
| Music by | Elliot Leung Zhiyi Wang Li Ye | ||||||
Production companies | Bona Film Group August First Film Studio Huaxia Film Distribution China Film Group Shanghai Film Group Alibaba Pictures Dengfeng International Culture Media | ||||||
| Distributed by | Bona Film Group Emperor Motion Pictures | ||||||
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Running time | 149 minutes[1] | ||||||
| Country | China | ||||||
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| Box office | $626.6 million[2][3] | ||||||
The Battle at Lake Changjin II (released in the United Kingdom as The Battle at Water Gate Bridge),[4] is a 2022 Chinese war drama film co-produced and co-directed by Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark and Dante Lam, written by Lan Xiaolong and Huang Jianxin, and starring Wu Jing and Jackson Yee. It was commissioned by the propaganda department of the Chinese Communist Party as part of its 100th anniversary.[5][6][7][8] The film is the sequel to The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021).[9][10][11] It is a fictionalized retelling of the fighting at Funchilin Pass during the Battle of Chosin Reservoir against American forces in the Korean War.[12]
The film was released on 1 February 2022 (Chinese New Year) and grossed over $626 million in China, making it the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2022.
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- ^ "Water Gate Bridge". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
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- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (20 December 2022). "The Battle at Water Gate Bridge review – gung-ho Chinese war epic takes on Uncle Sam". The Guardian. Guardian News & Media Limited. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
The Battle at Water Gate Bridge is released on 26 December on digital platforms.
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- ^ 《长津湖》电影热映 中美对朝鲜战争的不同叙事 ["Changjin Lake" becomes a box office hit, and China and the United States have different narratives about the Korean War]. BBC (in Chinese). 6 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ 中国《长津湖》票房破15亿 高调鼓动抗美援朝爱国主义 [China's "The Battle at Lake Changjin" grosses more than 1.5 billion yuan at the box office, encouraging patriotism to resist US aggression and aid Korea]. Radio Free Asia (in Chinese). 4 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
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- ^ "《长津湖》《大决战》等多部献礼片扎堆拍摄制作 怀柔打造红色"党史电影"拍摄基地". 北京日报. 13 June 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.